#MODERN

I'm digging into the anti-semitic side of QAnon on Instagram, and I want to highlight one of the biggest and most hateful narratives that continues to slip through (or is
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Who is your favorite DC Hero? Favorite DC Villain? Funniest Silver Age moments? Top 5 DC Movies? Favorite DCAU series? Favorite Blue Beetle and why? Favorite Green Lantern? Who's your
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“So if it’s not about designers making a living wage, what IS it about?” “So if it’s not about fair pricing of yarn, what IS it about?” “So if it’s
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Glasgow has internalised it’s role in the slave trade. A thread. Glassford street is named after John Glassford. He was a Tabacco baron that owned plantations in Virgina and Maryland.
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One of the weirdest things about modern urbanism is that we build the opposite of what we like.We adore Europe’s narrow streets, but build skyscraper-lined cities with six-lane roads and
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Q: Aren't we in a rapid free-market energy transition from fossil fuels to solar and wind?A: No. The 3.7% of American energy that comes from solar and wind is due
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THE CLONE WARS LIVETHREAD (starting from S3E15 oops). Mute if you don't want to see this because there will be spoilers in this. Maybe I'll collect all my Clone Wars
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Every part of the UK's pandemic response has been based in Conservative ideology. We faced the worst healthcare crisis in modern history, and they openly used it as an opportunity
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Seriously, am I going to have to be doing one of these etymology threads every time the Crunchyroll translator for "Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro" uses a word they
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The Mayflower passengers were in danger of dying on their ship until they found a place to build housing on land.Plymouth was already cleared of trees because it was the
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Yesterday was sadly my last day at Glitch. After 12 continuous years of employ in the tech industry, I'm gonna need... a minute to figure out what I'm doing next.
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I'm a huge NKJ fan & like all of this. But I feel like it makes a common left mistake in focusing too much on the content of messaging &
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Have the Doctor triumph over a universe of intractable horrors with boundless kindness and intelligence. The adults watching are smart enough to know that's not realistic. The kids watching are
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Merch is moving from an ancillary promotional novelty to a serious money-making avenue, within the worlds of music, politics and more."The internet has put fan culture, much like everything else,
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A twitter thread of elevator pitches for Pixar movies Toy Story: What if toys could feel? A Bug’s Life: What if bugs could feel? Toy Story 2: What if toys
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Rewatching one of my favorite movies, Raw, with my Movie Club and I thought I'd start a mini-thread of appreciation for this modern masterpiece.First up, parallel to Carrie (a movie
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